As another UFCW leader in Canada told Brodbeck, “Most of the employers we’ve dealt with haven’t treated their employees anywhere near as contemptuously as Mr. Ziegler has treated his employees.”

Even though Ziegler’s Local 832 already has a two-tier system, he was attempting to decrease the starting wages even further. He was pushing for the altered two-tier wage scale even as UFCW leaders in Los Angeles prepare for a possible grocery-chain showdown to get rid of the exact same scheme.